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There would be no compromise on the Centre’s land acquisition Bill, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today, sticking to her earlier stand.
“Why should we support the land bill? Land bill, no compromise,” Banerjee told reporters here.
“It is linked with soil. It is linked with our struggle,” the Trinamool Congress chief said as opposition parties alleged a “political bonhomie” between her and Narendra Modi with whom she had shared stage while unveiling social security schemes in Kolkata and modernised IISCO steel plant of SAIL at Burnpur.
Banerjee had earlier stated that her party would not support land acquisition bill. “We have made our stand clear in Parliament. I sat on a hunger strike for 26 days against forcible land acquisition,” she had said.
“It was our movement against forcible land acquisition which had sparked the demand for abolition of the draconian Land Acquisition Act of 1894,” Banerjee, whose party staged prolonged land acquisition agitations in Nandigram and Singur, stated. Meanwhile, the Chief Minister expressed happiness over successful implementation of the Rashtriya Swastha Bima Yojana in her State.
She said in her Facebook feed that the work on the programme had been highly appreciated by the World Bank and Global Alliances for Social Protection from GIZ (German Cooperation).
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